Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon Pro SSG

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2013 Aug 2017
Generation Volcanic Islands Radeon Pro
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 850 MHz 1440 MHz
Boost Clock 1000 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 945 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 16GB
Memory Type GDDR5 HBM2
Memory Bus 384bit 2048bit
Bandwidth 288.0GB/s 483.8GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32 64
Shading Units 2048 4096
TMUs 128 256
ROPs 32 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 768 KB 4 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 32.00 GPixel/s 96.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 128.0 GTexel/s 384.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 4.096 TFLOPS 12.29 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 1024 GFLOPS 768.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 24.58 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Vega 10
GPU Variant Tahiti XTL(215-0821065) Vega 10 XT GL(215-0894124)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 5.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 12.5 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 495 mm²
Board Design
TDP 250W 260W
Suggested PSU 600 W 600 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 6.4